Ladder

Filter families — the ladder

One essay so far against this idea. A ladder is the distinct arguments that stand against one idea, and this one has room to grow.
  1. -90-60-3001001k10kfrequency (hertz)gain (decibels)ButterworthChebyshevBesselhalf power1.00 kHzthe passband, magnified-1-0.500000.2000.4000.6000.8001solved, then checked — three networks, 133 frequencies eachall normalised to a measured −3 dB at 1.00 kHz

    Three families, one corner

    Butterworth is flat, Chebyshev is steep, Bessel has good delay. None of those is a number, so the table they appear in cannot answer the question anybody has. Here each family's poles are computed from its definition, built as an actual network, and then measured — starting with the step every comparison skips.

    rung 1 · filters

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